Of course the shopkeeper of the rice store knows the goods!
When he meets people, he tells people that he eats more salt than others eat rice. If he eats so much salt and can't even tell the difference between good and bad salt, it would be in vain.
The taste of salt depends on whether it is right or not, whether it is pure or not.
This batch of salt brought by Liang Chuan only tastes salty when eaten. With such a strong taste, no other peculiar smell can be tasted!
This salt is naturally top quality!
The key point is that Liang Chuan's price is very generous, only two hundred cents per catty.
This price can't be found even if you walk around Andzhou at night with a lantern.
Today's green salt is actually smuggled from Xixia. Good quality green salt that is not mixed with other well salt or sea salt costs more than 300 yuan per pound!
In comparison, Liang Chuan's salt sales are so conscientious! The shopkeeper, who deals with firewood, rice, oil and salt every day, naturally knows this well. If the salt can be sold for a hundred dollars, it will still be very popular!
He doesn't care where Liang Chuan's salt comes from, since it's sold to him, it's his!
Although he didn't dare to blatantly sell private salt, he still had the confidence to change hands among a few relatives and friends, not to mention who wouldn't want to eat such good salt!
So when Liang Chuan expressed his intention to cooperate for a long time, he decisively left the contact information to Liang Chuan.
However, selling salt is a high-risk business. If you are not careful, you will be reported to the government or the chieftain, and the end will be tragic!
If he wants to monopolize Liangchuan's line, he must do it covertly!
Naturally, Liang Chuan likes such an old Jianghu style!
As soon as the order was completed, even though the money weighed nearly a hundred kilograms, Liang Chuan carried it on his back, took Ah Yue and ran away without even stopping. The two of them ran five miles away, found a bush and hid in it for a while. They didn't come out of the bush until the sun went down.
Ah Yue, who was new to the world, didn't understand why Liang Chuan was so scared and hid here and there as if he had done something bad. Liang Chuan didn't explain too much, he just ran with the little girl until he was relieved when he reached a place where there was no smoke. tone.
Liang Chuan could see Ah Yue's confusion from her eyes, but he did not impose an explanation. Only one who has experienced the dangers of the world can understand it, otherwise no matter how much he talks about it, it will be in vain.
"Let's find a temple!"
Ah Yue let out a haha, very reluctantly!
It wasn't that the conditions in the temple were not good, but she was afraid of the murals and statues of ghosts and gods inside the temple. They either looked hideous, or they all depicted horrific scenes such as the eighteenth level of hell. Ah Yue was not afraid of anything else. , but what scares me the most is these things, and there is a strange animal. It is obviously a locust, but it is made bigger than a human. It is placed on the table and people have to offer incense!
Liang Chuan said: "You may blame me for not taking you to a hotel in the city, but let me tell you, it's not that Ah Qing is stingy. If our money were exposed in the city, let alone money, we might even lose our lives." ! Do you want to go to the city or stay in the mountains?"
'You, you, you, Ah Qing, you are so angry with me, do I just want to enjoy it? I'm just afraid of the ones inside the temple. . '
Liang Chuan's heart was suddenly hit!
He suddenly forgot that Ah Yue was just a child, a child of six or seven and a half years old!
When he was this age, he had his parents by his side and would not travel far, let alone sleep in the countryside!
I followed myself, but I never heard any complaints from Ah Yue, and I even wrongly blamed her!
'I didn't think well, but the night is special. We have worked hard for so long and how much hardship we have to pay to earn this money! It's just one night, we'll go into town tomorrow! '
Although Ah Yue was reluctant, what Liang Chuan said was not wrong, so she had to accept it.
There are a lot of small temples in the mountains. Although they are not big, they are better than being protected from wind, rain, snow and dew, and there are far fewer fire bugs. It is still okay to stay for one night.
Ah Yue went to light a fire, while Liang Chuan ran to the back of the small temple and took some branches. He wanted to dig a big hole!
There is too much money on me. Carrying so much money is equivalent to declaring oneself to death!
The best way is to hide the money somewhere. A small temple like this in the mountains where no one comes, is the most suitable!
There will be no big problem if the copper coins are buried in the soil for a short time!
Liang Chuan counted out several hundred coins and buried the rest in the soil.
Ah Yue had already lit the fire. Liang Chuan sighed and said, "I just forgot to buy a chicken in the city. Maybe the chicken will be roasted by now!"
Ah Yue took out a small piece of cloth-wrapped stuff from her arms, opened it and showed it to Liang Chuan: "Do you want to eat it or not?"
When Liang Chuan smelled it, there was a faint sour smell and asked, "Is this the leftover chicken from yesterday? Why do you bring it with you?"
"Yesterday I couldn't bear to eat it all in one go. I thought I would save some so that I could try it again if I want to eat it today!"
Liang Chuan took it over, smelled it and almost frowned, then threw the chicken away!
"Aqing, what are you doing!"
"The meat has gone bad and you still want to eat it? Aren't you afraid of a stomachache?"
The stomachache is not as uncomfortable as the feeling of being hungry!
How dare a child say that he is greedy? . If you are not afraid of stomachache, doesn’t that mean you admit that you are a greedy little cat?
"Have a rest and I'll take you back to the city to buy food!"
Ah Yue sat up and said to Liang Chuan: "No need to rest, I've already rested. If I rest any more, I'll be even hungrier!"
Also, Liang Chuan thought about it and put out the fire, and took Ah Yue into the city.
The first thing is to buy yourself a piece of Nongren clothing!
He has been wearing Miao clothes for who knows how long. There are holes all over his body. The weather wouldn't be cold in the first place, but the clothes with holes all over his body are cooler. The trouble is that Miao people seem to be unwelcome here. It turns out that not only the Miao people, but also the Yi and Yao people are not very happy in this place.
Ah Yue thought he was going to buy clothes for himself again, and wanted to stop Ah Qing, but when he saw Ah Qing put on Nongren's clothes, he didn't feel anything was wrong at all!
"If you wear our Nong people's clothes, everyone will treat you as Nong people from now on. Don't you think it's inappropriate?"
Liang Chuan laughed loudly and said, "What's wrong? I think it fits very well. What I want is for everyone to think I'm a nong. No one will look at me when I walk on the street in the future!"
Liang Chuan thought for a while and said: "In this way, from now on you will pretend to be my daughter, and you will call me daddy in front of others, so as not to make others suspicious!"
Ah Yue is very happy!
When he was very young, his parents died in conflicts with other ethnic groups. He followed Anon since he was a child. She was very envious of other children having parents. Since she followed Di Qing, although the two have nothing to do with each other, Ah Yue just likes to follow him. Behind Liang Chuan, there is more or less a child's dependence on his parents!
When she was with Anon before, she always wanted to call Anon her mother, but she didn't dare. Anon had a child of his own.
Now she can also call her daddy! Liang Chuan also didn't expect that he would become a father for the first time in such a way. He would have a half-year-old daughter before he got married and had children. .
But it’s good to think about it. If you really have a daughter like Ah Yue, your life should be quite happy.
This child is really obedient, and is pitifully sensible at such a young age. I don't even need to teach her any principles of life, so that she can live well.
After Liang Chuan bought the clothes, he put a bag of old clothes on his back, then wiped a handful of ashes on the ground, and wiped it on Ah Yue's face. Ah Yue was wearing old clothes, and now she was dirty, and she was placed among the crowd. It’s even more inconspicuous!
"You go buy salt later. Just like last time, buy as much coarse salt as you have! Buy the worst salt and don't ask for the rest!"
Although she didn't understand the principle of Liang Chuan's purification, Ah Yue vaguely understood that Liang Chuan didn't pick up the salt somewhere, and it must have something to do with the coarse salt she bought!
"I'm going to buy gauze and an iron pot. We'll meet in front of this cloth shop in a while!"
Liang Chuan left about a hundred cents of all the money he had with him, and gave the rest to Ah Yue.
Ah Yue's small body carried a few hundred coins and headed to the salt shop in the market. This time I brought a lot of money. According to the price of salt in Guangyuan Prefecture, a pound of coarse salt is only about five cents, and the fluctuation will definitely not exceed one cent.
One hundred pennies can buy twenty catties, and a few hundred pennies can buy hundreds of catties!
Ah Yue stood pitifully in front of the salt shop in Andezhou.
Every day, countless beggars come to beg for food and money, but most of them are driven away by the waiters, and very few of them get the money.
The poor Andzhou didn't even have enough to eat himself, so he had no spare money to share with beggars.
The clerk at the salt shop was about to chase Ah Yue away, but Ah Yue said something different: "Do you sell salt here?"
The waiter, who was originally full of anger, turned into a smile: "What kind of salt do you want to buy?"
"I want to buy some coarse salt for my family's livestock!"
How much can a little girl buy? The clerk asked: "How many miles do you plan to buy? How many cows do you have at home?"
"No cattle."
The waiter thought to himself that he was afraid he would have to buy something to eat for himself, but he was embarrassed to say it, so he found an excuse and said it was for the livestock.
"It doesn't matter. How much do you want, kid? Just ask and the money will be fine!"
"How much does a pound of salt cost? I only need to buy the worst coarse salt. I can't afford anything else."
"I know, I know, that's it!" The waiter brought a bag of coarse salt to Ah Yue. See if it's like this. It's the cheapest here, only four cents per pound, but you have to eat it tight. , if you are not careful, you may die! "
The coarse salt in Andezhou is also called local salt. There are too many impurities in it. Many people use this salt to eat back home because they cannot afford good salt. As a result, they die. The waiter is also kind-hearted and does not want to see Ah Yue. Something happened, so I gave Ah Yue a heads up!
"Then you see how much I can buy with this money, and you can load it for me. We live in the mountains, and it is rare to come down here. The next time we come here may not be until next year!"
There was pity in A Yue's voice, which made people unable to bear to rub salt into their wounds.
At such a young age, he has such acting skills that he even deceived these salt shop clerks who have seen a lot of people!
"This can buy you quite a lot, kid, where are your adults? You can't carry this much salt!"
